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CVE-2021-42363: Preview E-Mails for WooCommerce <= 1.6.8 Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2021-11-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Preview E-Mails for WooCommerce WordPress plugin is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the search_order parameter found in the ~/views/form.php file which allows attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts, in versions up to and including 1.6.8.

Affected products

• Preview E-Mails for WooCommerce: through 1.6.8

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2625941/woo-preview-emails/trunk/views/form.php
• https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2021/11/woocommerce-extension-reflected-xss-vulnerability/
• https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2021-42363
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2625941/woo-preview-emails/trunk/views/form.php
• https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2021/11/woocommerce-extension-reflected-xss-vulnerability/
• https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2021-42363

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